Supplemental pocket for pool and billiard tables



(No Model.)

F. K'IEKENAPP. SUPPLEMENTAL-POCKET FOR POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES.

Patented July 17, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK KIEKENAPP, OF FARIBAULT, .MINNESOTA.

SUPPLEMENTAL POCKET FOR POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,518, dated July 17,1883.

Application filed April 19, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

' Be it known that I, FREDERICK KIEKEN'APP, of Faribault, in the countyof Rice and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and ImprovedSupplemental Pocket for P001 and Billiard Tables; and I do hereby.declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of thesame, reference being had to. the accompanying drawings, forming a partof this specification, and to the figures and letters of referencemarkedthereon.

My invention has for its object to provide a protective lining for theordinary open work or knitted pockets of pool and billiard tables,whereby the knitted pockets are rendered durable and capable of lastingas long as the other parts of the table.

To this end it consists in the provision of a supplementary pocket, ofleather, paper, rubber, or other suitable equivalent flexible material,adapted to be inserted into the ordinary knitted pocket of atable,having its upper portion cut away at its front for the admission of theball, and extended at its back so as to project above the level of thetable and receive the impact of the ball; and it further consists informing upwardly-extending flexible fingers at the front cut-awayportion of such supplementary pocket, which fingers are adapted to betacked or otherwise fastened to the table, and, while/they do notproject up so as to interfere with the ready entrance of the ball intothe pocket, protect the front portion of the knitted pocket from contactwith the ball.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents aperspective view of asupplemental pocket constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2is a longitudinal sectional view, and Fig. 3 is a top plan view of thesame. I

Similar letters of reference in the several figures indicate the sameparts. 7

"A represents a supplemental pocket,con-- structed preferably ofleather, molded or the front side and across the bottom, as shown.

' wise, and flush, or nearly so, with the tablepressed into the shapeshown,.the parts being united by a central seam, at, extending" down 4.

practical use it is slipped into the ordinary 6o knitted pocket of abilliard or pool table, with its open front toward the entrance to thepocket proper,and with the ends of its fingers B fastened to the edge ofthe table by tacks or other- 5 top, and the upper end of the extendedrear portion, 0, projecting up sufficiently high to receive the impactof a ball when driven into the pocket.

It will be apparent that a knitted pocket provided with my inventionwill be completely protected from wear by the balls, and will last aslong as any other part of the table.

Instead of constructing the supplemental pocket of leather, it may bemade of rubber, paper, vulcanized fiber, felt, or other suitableequivalent material.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new 1. A supplementalpocket for billiard or pool tables, adapted to be slipped into theordinary knitted pocket," consisting of a body of leather or likemateriahhaving its upper portion cut away at the front to admit theball, and its upperback portion extended up so as to receive the impactof the ball, substantially as described. I V

2. Thehereindescribed supplemental pocket, consisting of the body ofleather or like material, having the open front, the flexible flar- 9oing fingers, and the extended back, as set forth.

Witnesses: 5 v JOHN MULLIN,'

